Editing Wife (section)

==== Women's income affects the dynamics of heterosexual love relationships ====
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The effect of women's income on heterosexual relationships’ dynamics depends on several factors. If the couple has strong traditional values, the income of women will affect men's gender identity and affect their well-being.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=J, H |first1=Brown, Roberts |date=11 Apr 2014 |title=Gender role identity, breadwinner status and psychological well-being in the household. |url=https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/economics/research/serps |journal=Department of Economics, University of Sheffield |issue=breadwinner status and psychological well-being in the household |access-date=9 May 2022}}</ref> If they have strong liberal values, the income of a woman will make the woman the provider of the house and put the man in a more domestic role. However, in most cases a couple will develop a mutually dependent relationship where the woman's income is needed, but at the same time the woman will do the majority of the housework.

At the beginning of the 1970s the traditional dynamic was that women performed domestic labor and that men worked for income due to the economic pressures in place.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Schwarts, Ganalons Pons |first1=Christian, Pilar |date=2016 |title=Trends in Relative Earnings and Marital Dissolution: Are Wives Who Outearn Their Husbands Still More Likely to Divorce? |url=https://doi.org/10.7758/rsf.2016.2.4.08 |journal=The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences |volume=2 |issue=Woman equality |pages=218–236 |doi=10.7758/rsf.2016.2.4.08 |pmc=5021537 |pmid=27635418 |s2cid=27543879}}</ref> Eventually, [[Second-wave feminism|second wave feminism]] challenged this dynamic. Starting in the 1980s, correlations between higher income of women and higher rates of divorce began decreasing.<ref name=":1" /> 

The economic independence theory<ref name=":1">{{cite journal |last1=S |first1=Rogers |title=Dollars, Dependency, and Divorce: Four Perspectives on the Role of Wives' Income. |journal=Journal of Marriage and Family |date=2004 |volume=66(1) |issue=Woman equality |pages=59–74 |doi=10.1111/j.1741-3737.2004.00005.x |jstor=3599866 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/3599866 |access-date=9 May 2022}}</ref> establishes that if one side of the couple provides more than 60% of the total income of the couple, there is a dependence effect. Therefore, in recent decades women have had a major increase in their economic independence. At the same time, women have had to wrestle with other economic decisions, such as the postponement of [[Mother|motherhood]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Romeu Gordo |first1=Laura |date=2009 |title=Why Are Women Delaying Motherhood in Germany? |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13545700903153955 |journal=Feminist Economics |volume=15:4 |issue=Woman equality |pages=57–75 |doi=10.1080/13545700903153955 |access-date=9 May 2022 |s2cid=216643854}}</ref>